“Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened...… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
